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Pop quiz: The Usual Suspects is a 20-year-old film featuring Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, or a list of award-winning names among Cochrane’s elite amateur wrestlers? Answer: Both.

A year ago, Springbank High School Phoenix varsity boy’s basketball player Steen Lindquist was a tall, skilled Grade 11 making some plays. This year, he was a colossus.

Edge School for Athletes senior Channia Alexander will be close to home at the next level of her hockey career.

You couldn’t dream of a better way to open a playoff series. So when United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) Bisons skated out of Calgary’s South Fish Creek Rec Centre with a 9-1 win over Calgary Buffaloes, it was a dream come true.

You will be hard-pressed to pin down a larger one-day sporting event in Cochrane than the Alberta Amateur Wrestling Association’s Alberta Open tournament at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre.

With her Edge School Mountaineers Midget Prep girl’s hockey career in the bag, Cochrane’s Daria O’Neill is stepping up to the next level.

A year ago, he was fighting for his life. Diagnosed last February with stage 3 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer in the lymphatic/immune system), Cochrane High School Cobras two-sport star Brock Wiebe began the first of five chemotherapy treatments.

A new direction. It's where a segment of Cochrane's adult soccer is heading with the formation of the Cochrane Soccer Club.

The Big One. What else do you call the largest one-day indoor sporting event of 2015 in Cochrane? Three-hundred-fifty athletes ages 5-30 are at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre March 7, competing in the Alberta Open amateur provincial wrestling championships. Hosted by the Cochrane Cowboys Wrestling Club, Alberta's top wrestlers hit the mat in the Alberta Amateur Wresting Association's (AAWA) annual Open tournament.

The Cochrane Cowboys are ready. One of the province’s largest, most prestigious amateur wrestling events is in town March 7. And Cowboys’ 35 members have spent the season preparing for the 2015 Alberta Open amateur wrestling championships.